Issue: 246 This issue # 246 marks the 41st year of publication. I must have started writing this in elementary...
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Issue: 244 A few weeks ago, thanks to RINA and Chicago Deferred, I gave an hour-long webinar forecasting where the...
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Bloomberg News Banks around the world are unveiling the biggest round of job cuts in four years as they slash...
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By 2040, the entire Bay Area is expected to add an additional 2.1 million people to the region, but building additional housing remains a tough sell.
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The biggest development in San Jose will be the 60+ acres of downtown properties Google has acquired, proposing 3-5,000 residential units, 5.5 million square feet of office space, 15 acres of open space and 500,000 square feet of retail, cultural, arts, hotel and other uses.
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The Standard, April 24, 2024: “By the end of 2019, the 20 biggest tech employers had leased more than 16...
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Christopher Aquilina, SIOR with tenant rep firm Spring 4 n the United Kingdom, , said “Tenants are increasingly understanding that...
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HubbleHQ has more than 1,000 offices in 250 buildings in London where companies can just pay and use the...
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The european office market, with a current vacancy rate of around 8.7%, appears healthier than our U.S. rate of 20%....
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This may be a new record for the most office space, both direct as well as for sublease, in the...
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Amazon Slashing office space, will save $1.3 Billion in Costs. Will let leases expire and negotiate early lease terminations. Starwood...
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I have been predicting for some time that office occupancy will go up over the next few years-in my opinion...
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“The self-proclaimed leader of the return-to-work movement is now staring down some of the emptiest office buildings in the country....
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In Bisnow February 25, 2024, ”Paul Darrah, who is the chief workplace office for Citadel which has $92.46 billion under...
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According to Mortgage Bankers Association, it is 929 billion but close enough to the Big T…there were loan extensions from...
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“Office buildings across the country are starting to trade at significant markdowns, in many cases selling for less than...
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According to an article published January 22, 2024 in Biznow, office conversions to apartments has risen to over 55,000,”four times...
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Blackstone, the world’s largest owner of commercial real estate, owned 1740 Broadway, New York, an office building that was appraised...
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San Francisco Business Times January 19, 2024 Various headlines from just this one issue: First page, ‘The Coming Debt Wave’,...
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This was the headline from the January 8, 2024 BisNow newsletter. “Roughly 19.6% of office space in major American metropolitan...
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I’ve been speaking with commercial real estate appraisers about this recent sale and the impact it will have on...
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Bisnow 12/19/23 reported that according to data from the National Bureau f Economic Research, 44% of bank loans are...
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The SF Business Times 12/8/23 summarized the numerous bargain office building sales over the past few months. Presidio Bay...
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San Francisco’s office vacancy rate of 35%, the highest on record, is expected to climb further as corporations continue to...
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Almost all of the predictiions I have made over the past 43 years which have been published in one...
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This was the headline of a November 14, 2023, BisNow report. “Revenue at companies with flexible work-from-home policies grew...
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There appears to have been multiple offers on 115 Sansome St. in San Francisco, a 125,000 square foot 14-story...
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Walmart is subleasing 719,000 of office space in a four-building complex at Crossman Drive at Caribbean Drive in Sunnyvale, and...
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I have recently interviewed a number of office building experts and for suburban Class A office buildings in the Walnut...
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There is simply no way to sugar-coat what is happening in most parts of the United States in regard...
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89% defaulted ($672 million) and 11.1% ($83.7 million) were paid off during September 2023. None were extended or modified, according...
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Contrary to reports of corporate executives mandating or begging or offering incentives for employees to return to the office, many...
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A recent 2023 U.S. CEO Outlook survey by corporate-services firm KPMG poll showed that CEO confidence in having their employees return...
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Office workers mandated to return to the office, at least a few times a month, are finding a productive way...
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The SF Business Times Oct. 2, 203 reported on a recent survey of 2,000 full0time employees by Owl Labs, The...
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The San Francisco Business Times reported September 28, 2023 that the CEO of Prologis, Hamid Moghadam, who runs the Billiion...
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Major brokerage companies report San Francisco office vacancy now almost 34%. And including s[ace for space that isn’t vacant over...
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The Bay Area News Group reported that 26% of residents work remotely, down from 36% in 2021. However, ‘despite...
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If true this could be great news! A recent working report from New York University and Columbia University identified older...
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Austell Place, a 170,000 sf 100-year-old office building and was renovated in 2019 will now have 1,000 migrants living in...
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If California were a country, it would be the 5th largest economy in the world, more productive than Inda and...
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“Back in April, Dropbox announced it was cutting 500 employees. In May, outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas let go of almost...
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Bisnow 8/23/23 Goldman Sachs is cracking down on making sure everyone comes back to the office full-time “though revenue-producing employees...
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I was recently asked by a business reporter if, with suburban Class A office buildings like 2300 Clayton in...
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The San Francisco Business Times August 29, 2023 reported that the latest Survey of Business Uncertainty (what a name!) from...
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According to an article just published August 17, 2023 n Bisnow, “…conversions had been largely characterized as a drop in...
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There was a recent announcement of the largest office deal done in the past 12 months in the Oakland area....
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According to the SF Business Times, ’San Francisco Sees Significant Jump in Return-To-Office Study’, with a 38% year-over-year increase in...
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There are a new host of nontraded REITs being formed raising money to look for bargain commercial properties and...
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On average, wrote Jerry Nickelsburg, an adjunct professor of economics at UCLA who helped run the survey, participants in...
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Jeffrey Weil, CCIM, MCR.h, SIOR
Executive Vice President
San Francisco Bay Area
1850 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Suite 200
Walnut Creek, Ca 94507
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Phone: +1 925 279 5590
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Email: jeff.weil@colliers.com